Italians Claim to Prove Cold Fusion
On January 15, two Italian scientists at the University of Bologna claimed to have demonstrated cold fusion by constructing a small heater that will produce 12,400 watts of heating power. And unlike previous claims, the two scientists have declared that they will actually produce a working device that will be in mass production by the end of this year. Here is a
link to a description of the events on Physorg.com
According to Physorg, "Rossi and Focardi explain that the reaction produces radiation,
providing evidence that the reaction is indeed a nuclear reaction and
does not work by some other method. They note that no radiation escapes
due to lead shielding, and no radioactivity is left in the cell after it
is turned off, so there is no nuclear waste."
Naturally, this announcement has been met with tremendous excitement by Cold Fusion supporters and tremendous skepticism (even outright hostility) by much of the mainstream scientific community. As Physorg says, "Rossi and Focardi’s paper on
the nuclear reactor has been rejected by peer-reviewed journals, but
the scientists aren’t discouraged. They published their paper in the
Journal of Nuclear Physics, an online journal founded and run by themselves, which is obviously cause for a great deal of skepticism." And
the fact that these two scientists have chosen to make their
announcement at a press conference echoes that fateful day in March,
1989, at the University of Utah.
However, as Craig Shields says in
2GreenEnergy, "it strikes me as wrong to ridicule scientists’ sincere efforts in their
exploration of areas that happen to be unproven today. ...I have
to say that keeping an open mind about the possibilities for the energy
of tomorrow is integral to who we are here."
What do you think? Is this the announcement that will prove Cold Fusion is real, once and for all? Or is this another example of delusional scientists making an impossible claim?
